You can't just play on the edge of games - you have to be in the thick of it.

But there's no point in looking back and saying I was unlucky.

Most goals are scored between the posts.

There is pressure every day as a footballer.

I'm a footballer, that's my job and that's all I want to be known for.

Me Grandad is 74 and he's football bananas, so me nan gets loads of grief.

The ball was coming down like a butterfly with sore feet.

You look at Patrick Vieira and Emmanuel Petit at Arsenal or Roy Keane at Man United, and they are players that can do everything.

I'm enjoying myself this year and for once I'm not chasing my fitness.

Arsenal's width comes from wide areas.

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.

If after all men cannot always make history have a meaning they can always act so that their own lives have one.

I've always been called "controversial." I think if I were not controversial I wouldn't be doing my job.

Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.

With firm faith in our hearts, to sustain us along the hard road to victory, we will find our way to a secure peace, for the ultimate benefit of all humanity.

You've got to stop whipping a dead horse sometime.

I noticed every time I spent a lot of time in the bathtub, I would just get fantastic realizations about myself, and they were so valuable and liberating.

Cal: “Could you write a little bigger? I’m not sure China saw that.” Every Boy's Got One

Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow.

An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.